systems and techniques relating to wireless communication are described. A described technique includes transmitting a first signal wirelessly to a wireless communication device in accordance with a first transmit mode that is selected from a plurality of transmit modes; receiving a shortlist from the wireless communication device, the shortlist identifying a subset of the transmit modes, the subset of the transmit modes including two or more modes that are different from the first transmit mode; selecting a second transmit mode from the shortlist; transmitting a second signal wirelessly to the wireless communication device in accordance with the second transmit mode; and selectively cycling through any remaining modes of the shortlist based on a lack of reception of an acknowledgement to the second signal. The wireless communication device can be configured to generate the shortlist based on a channel quality analysis of a received version of the first signal.
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8. A method comprising:
transmitting a first signal wirelessly to a wireless communication device in accordance with a first transmit mode that is selected from a plurality of transmit modes;
receiving a shortlist from the wireless communication device, the shortlist identifying a subset of the transmit modes, the subset of the transmit modes including two or more modes that are different from the first transmit mode, wherein the wireless communication device is configured to generate the shortlist based on a channel quality analysis of a received version of the first signal;
selecting a second transmit mode from the shortlist;
transmitting a second signal wirelessly to the wireless communication device in accordance with the second transmit mode; and
selectively cycling through any remaining modes of the shortlist based on a lack of reception of an acknowledgement to the second signal.
15. A system comprising:
a transceiver configured to transmit a first signal wirelessly to a wireless communication device in accordance with a first transmit mode that is selected from a plurality of transmit modes and to receive a shortlist from the wireless communication device, the shortlist identifying a subset of the transmit modes, the subset of the transmit modes including two or more modes that are different from the first transmit mode, wherein the wireless communication device is configured to generate the shortlist based on a channel quality analysis of a received version of the first signal; and
a selector comprising circuitry configured to select a second transmit mode from the shortlist,
wherein the transceiver is configured to transmit a second signal wirelessly to the wireless communication device in accordance with the second transmit mode,
wherein the selector is configured to selectively cycle through any remaining modes of the shortlist based on a lack of reception of an acknowledgement to the second signal for a transmission of one or more third signals to the wireless communication device.
1. An apparatus comprising:
circuitry configured to control a transmission of a first signal wirelessly to a wireless communication device in accordance with a first transmit mode that is selected from a plurality of transmit modes;
circuitry configured to receive a shortlist from the wireless communication device, the shortlist identifying a subset of the transmit modes, the subset of the transmit modes including two or more modes that are different from the first transmit mode, wherein the wireless communication device is configured to generate the shortlist based on a channel quality analysis of a received version of the first signal; and
circuitry configured to select a second transmit mode from the shortlist for a transmission of a second signal, and selectively cycle through any remaining modes of the shortlist based on a lack of reception of an acknowledgement to the second signal,
wherein the circuitry configured to control the transmission is configured to control a transmission of the second signal wirelessly to the wireless communication device in accordance with the second transmit mode or one of the remaining modes.
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This application is a continuation of, and claims priority to, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/425,350, filed on Mar. 20, 2012, entitled “Data Rate Adaptation In Multiple-In-Multiple-Out Systems” (now U.S. Pat. No. 8,532,081), which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/620,024, filed on Jul. 14, 2003, entitled “Data Rate Adaptation in Multiple-In-Multiple-Out Systems” (now U.S. Pat. No. 8,149,810), which claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/447,448, filed Feb. 14, 2003, entitled “Data Rate Adaptation in Multiple In Multiple Out (MIMO) Systems”. The application herein claims the benefit of priority of all of the above listed patent applications and hereby incorporates by reference in their entirety the said patent applications.
Wireless phones, laptops, PDAs, base stations and other systems may wirelessly transmit and receive data. A single-in-single-out (SISO) system may have two transceivers in which one predominantly transmits and the other predominantly receives. The transceivers may use multiple data rates depending on channel quality.
An MR×MT multiple-in-multiple-out (MIMO) wireless system, such as that shown in
The multiple antennas 104, 106 may improve link quality (e.g., achieving a minimum bit error rate (BER)) by using a transmission signaling scheme called “transmit diversity,” where the same data stream (i.e., same signal) is sent on multiple transmit antennas 104, after appropriate coding. The receiver 102 receives multiple copies of the coded signal and processes the copies to obtain an estimate of the received data.
The multiple antennas 104, 106 may achieve high data rates by using another transmission signaling scheme called “spatial multiplexing,” where a data bit stream may be demultiplexed into parallel independent data streams. The independent data streams are sent on different transmit antennas 104 to obtain an increase in data rate according to the number of transmit antennas 104 used.
The present application relates to a hybrid multiple-in-multiple-out (MIMO) system that may use aspects of link adaptation and cycling through a shortlist of transmit modes. A receiver may receive signals from a transmitter and derive channel quality statistics, such as a mean signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio (SINR). The receiver may compare the derived post-processing mean SINR with pre-determined threshold mean SINRs in a lookup table for an ideal “orthogonal” channel. The receiver may use the lookup table to efficiently find an optimum transmission mode or a shortlist of possible modes. The single lookup table may be relatively small and more efficient to implement than one or more lookup tables that account for multiple channel scenarios. The receiver feeds back the optimum transmission mode or shortlist to the transmitter, which adapts its spatial multiplexing rate s, coding rate r and modulation order m. The receiver may feed the optimum transmission scheme(s) back to the transmitter in a compressed manner, such as lookup table indices. The system may minimize retransmissions and hence improve medium access controller (MAC) throughput.
The transmitter 100 and receiver 102 may be part of a MIMO-OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) system. OFDM splits a data stream into multiple radiofrequency channels, which are each sent over a subcarrier frequency. The transmitter 100 and receiver 102 are preferably implemented in LANs or WANs. It is also contemplated that such transceivers may be implemented in any type of wireless communication device or system, such as a mobile phone, laptop, personal digital assistant (PDA), a base station, a residence, an office, etc.
The number of independent data streams transmitted by the transmit antennas 104 may be called a “multiplexing order” or “spatial multiplexing rate” (s). A spatial multiplexing rate s=1 indicates pure diversity, and a spatial multiplexing rate s=min(MR,MT) (minimum number of receive or transmit antennas) indicates pure multiplexing. The MIMO system 130 may use combinations of diversity and spatial multiplexing, i.e., 1≦s≦min(MR,MT), depending on a channel scenario.
Each data stream may have an independent coding rate (r) and a modulation order (m). The physical (PHY) layer, or raw, data rate may be expressed as R=r×log2(m)×s Bps/Hz. A transmitter's PHY layer chip may support many data rates depending on the values of s, r and m. For example, a 4×4 MIMO system with IEEE 802.11a coding and modulation schemes (8 in number) and 6 spatial multiplexing orders
may have up to 8×6=48 different data “transmission modes” or “transmission schemes,” each with its own data rate.
A “transmission mode” or “transmit mode” refers to a set of transmission parameters, such as transmission signaling scheme (spatial multiplexing, transmit diversity or some combination), data rate R, coding rate r, modulation order m and modulation level, e.g., 8PSK (phase shift keying), GMSK (Gaussian minimum shift keying), BPSK (binary PSK), QPSK (quaternary PSK), 16-QAM (16-quadrature amplitude modulation, 64-QAM, etc.
The optimum data rate and transmission mode that achieve a target bit error rate (BER) may vary, depending on user locations and channel characteristics, which may cause time-selective fading, frequency-selective fading and space-selective fading.
The current IEEE 802.11 modem of a single-in-single-out (SISO) transmitter starts transmission at the highest possible data rate. If the transmitter modem receives an acknowledgement (ACK) signal from a SISO receiver, then the modem uses the highest possible data rate for further transmissions. Otherwise, the modem lowers the data rate and cycles through all possible data rates until the transmitter receives an ACK signal from the receiver. For a 4×4 MIMO system with 48 possible data rates, the cycle-through method may waste a significant amount of real-time bandwidth.
“Link adaptation” (also referred to as “adaptive modulation”) may be a more efficient mechanism to select an optimum data transmission rate. Link adaptation has been studied for SISO systems. A receiver (a) measures a channel quality characteristic (also called channel quality condition or channel state information (CSI)) (e.g., signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) or signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio (SINR)), (b) converts the channel characteristic into BER information for each transmit mode, (c) selects an optimum transmit mode (from a plurality of modes) based on the channel characteristic and a target BER, and (d) feeds the channel characteristic or selected mode back to the transmitter. The transmitter receives the fed back channel characteristics or selected mode and adjusts its transmit mode and data rate accordingly.
Link adaptation exploits variations of a wireless channel over time, frequency and/or space due to changing environmental and interference conditions by dynamically adjusting transmission parameters. Link adaptation may select the most efficient mode for spectral efficiency over varying channel conditions based on a mode selection criterion, e.g., maximum data rate, for each link. Since each transmit mode has a unique data rate and minimum SNR needed to activate the mode, different transmit modes are suited for optimal use in different channel quality regions.
For example, the receiver may estimate a SINR for each channel realization and choose a transmit mode (data rate, transmission coding rate r, and modulation order m). In an ideal link adaptation system, the receiver receives a packet and instantaneously sends feedback indicating the chosen transmit mode to the transmitter. Fast feedback is not always possible or desired because feedback consumes bandwidth. For systems with a limited feedback rate (e.g., slower than the “channel coherence time”, which is the time duration when channel impulse responses remain strongly correlated), the receiver may receive a plurality of packets during a time window and obtain SINR “statistics” (e.g., mean SINR, variance, etc.) from the packets. The transmitter may use the SINR “statistics” to adapt the transmit mode.
A SISO receiver may create a plurality of lookup tables for a plurality of channel scenarios. Each channel scenario may be characterized by SINR variance across time (σt2) and variance across frequency (σf2). The receiver may index the lookup tables according to σt2 and σf2. Each lookup table has a plurality of entries for a plurality of different transmit modes and their mean threshold SINRs (
For each time window, which can span several received packets, the receiver computes the mean SINR (μ) and SINR variances σt2, σf2. The receiver uses the SINR variances to select an appropriate lookup table. Within the selected lookup table, the receiver uses the mean SINR (μ) to select a transmit mode (data rate, transmission coding rate r, and modulation order m) that maximizes the data rate while operating at the target BER or packet error rate (PER). In other words,
where s−×log2m×r is the data rate as described above. The BER may be extracted from the cyclic redundancy check (CRC) information at the link layer. If multiple transmit modes yield the same data rate, then the receiver or transmitter may select the transmit mode with the highest SINR margin
A similar link adaptation scheme may be implemented in a MIMO system. However, such an approach may be difficult to implement since MIMO channel scenarios and transmit modes are much larger than in a SISO system. The channel scenarios may be larger due to dependencies on properties like LOS (line-of-sight) matrix, polarization, correlation, etc. For example, assuming 10 different channel scenarios and 48 transmit modes for a 4×4 IEEE 802.11 MIMO system, the MIMO system may require in a large lookup table with 48×10=480 entries (or 10 lookup tables each with 48 entries). If any transmission scheme is changed or added, all 480 entries may have to be recomputed. Computing the lookup table entries via numerical simulation or measurements for each channel scenario may be difficult and time-consuming.
Link Adaptation and Cycling Through a Shortlist
In an embodiment, the MIMO system 130 in
(described below). The subset selection module 114 selects a shortlist or subset of transmit modes from the lookup table 108 with channel quality statistics that are close to the measured channel quality statistics at 208. The transmit portion 101B of the receiver 102 sends the shortlist to the receive portion 103A of the transmitter 100 at 210. The shortlist feedback may be a part of an acknowledge/no acknowledge (ACK/NACK) packet.
If the transmitter 100 has tried every mode and its corresponding date rate in the shortlist 108, an alternative strategy may be used. For example, the transmitter may use a low data rate until the receiver 102 sends another shortlist at 416. In alternative embodiments, the transmitter may try other data rates or request a new shortlist from the receiver 100.
In an embodiment, the receiver 102 may store pre-configured operating modes in a memory such as a non-volatile memory 109, which may include the lookup table 108, as shown in
A “post-processing” SINR refers to SINR derived after data from multiple antennas are combined, as opposed to a “pre-processing” SINR derived from data at each antenna. A mean threshold receive post-processing SINR
is the minimum post-processing mean SINR required for a given transmit mode (i.e., set of spatial multiplexing rate s, coding rate r, and modulation order m values) to operate at a target BER.
In contrast to the proposed MIMO link adaptation scheme with multiple channel scenarios described above (which used 10×48=480 entries), the receiver 102 may store a relatively small lookup table 108 (e.g., 48 entries) by assuming a selected ideal or generalized reference channel, such as an “orthogonal channel” or an Independent and Identically Distributed (IID) channel. An IID channel may use a random MIMO matrix, where each element of the MIMO matrix is a complex, normal and distributed mean of zero and a variance of one. An IID channel accounts for fading margins. An “orthogonal” channel does not account for fading margins and may be equivalent to an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel for a SISO system. An orthogonal channel may be relatively easy to simulate. The receiver 102 may simulate both an IID channel and an orthogonal channel to see which one provides better results. The lookup table 108 based on a selected ideal or generalized reference channel may be relatively easy to generate and save. Thus, the receiver 102 does not have to save lookup tables for a plurality of channel scenarios.
For example, in a 4×4 MIMO system, the lookup table 108 based on an orthogonal channel may have 48 entries for 48 modes and their threshold post-processing mean SINRs
as opposed to 480 entries for the MIMO link adaptation scheme described above.
The receiver 102 may receive a plurality of packets 150 from the transmitter 100 during a time window, which may span several packets. The packets 150 may undergo processing, such as demodulation, and reach a channel estimator 120 and a noise and interference estimator 128. For each time window, the channel estimator 120 estimates a channel response, and the noise and interference estimator 128 estimates noise and interference. Various techniques may be used for channel estimation and noise and interference estimation. For example, in an embodiment, each transmit antenna transmits a known training sequence that is orthogonal to the training sequences transmitted by the other transmitters. The channel estimator 120 uses the received training sequence and known transmit sequence to estimate the channel element for each transmit-receive antenna pair. For noise and interference estimation, the transmitter transmits null-sequences (e.g., zero tones or empty packets). During this period, the receiver records signals for each receive antenna. These signals are attributed to receiver noise and interference. The noise variance (σ2) is the variance of the noise (and interference) signal.
A channel quality indicator derivation module 111 derives a channel quality indicator, such as post-processing SINR, based on outputs of the channel estimator 120 and noise and interference estimator 128. The post-processing SINR may be referred to as instantaneous or derived at a particular instant in time.
For each time window, a channel quality statistics computation module 113 computes channel quality statistics, such as a post-processing mean SINR μs and a “margin SINR”. The margin SINR is an increase in mean SINR desired to guard against channel fades. The margin SINR may include a “fading margin” and a “frequency diversity gain,” as described below. If the channel has no fades, then margin SINR=0. If the channel has severe fading, then margin SINR may be a relatively large number. The statistics computation module 113 at the receiver 102 may generate the mean receive post-processing SINR μs and margin SINR for each spatial multiplexing rate s using the MIMO channel estimate from the channel estimator 122 and noise and interference power estimate from the noise and interference power estimator 128 at the receiver 102.
The statistics computation module 113 may then compute an “outage SINR,” which is mean SINR+margin SINR. The subset selection module 114 uses the post-processing mean SINR or preferably the outage SINR to find entries in the lookup table 108 that have a threshold post processing mean SINR close to the currently estimated mean SINR or outage SINR. The subset selection module 114 may select a particular number of entries (e.g., one to five), and send a shortlist of modes from the selected entries back to the transmitter 100 via the transmit portion 101B.
The transmitter 100 may try sending data using the mode from the shortlist with the highest data rate at 406 in
There are at least two advantages of this system. The shortlist sent as feedback from the receiver 102 to the transmitter 100 saves channel bandwidth because only a limited number of modes are sent instead of 48 modes or other channel information that may require a number of feedback messages. In addition, the transmitter 100 saves time and resources by cycling through a limited number transmit modes and does not have to cycle through 48 transmit modes.
In an embodiment, the subset selection module 114 generates a shortlist with three transmit modes. If the transmitter 100 tries all three transmit modes and does not receive an ACK signal (e.g., because the receiver 102 did not estimate a mean SINR or margin SINR accurately or the channel conditions suddenly change), the receiver 102 may repeat the process of estimating a mean SINR and Margin SINR, finding three closest entries in the lookup table 108, and sending another shortlist to the transmitter 100 at 210 in
The receiver 102 may be modified to provide instantaneous feedback to the transmitter 100 without estimating the margin and mean SINR. The tradeoff is between feedback rate and performance. Feedback based on SINR statistics (mean SINR and/or Margin SINR) may transmit at a lower data rate to guard against fluctuations in channel quality (as long as the fluctuations were present in the time window of packets used to estimate SINR statistics). Instantaneous feedback of an optimum data rate may use up more “feedback” bandwidth but may transmit at the optimum rate depending on the exact channel state.
The lookup table 108 may have a plurality of entries with threshold post-processing mean SINRs
which are the minimum SINRs required for available transmit modes. Each transmit mode may include a spatial multiplexing rate (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4), a coding rate r (e.g., the same as used by IEEE 802.11), and a modulation order m (e.g., 4QAM, 16 QAM, 64QAM, etc.). The description below describes how the receiver 102 derives a post-processing mean SINR measurement, a fading margin or Margin SINR, a frequency diversity gain αr, and from these quantities, the outage SINR and “total Outage SINR.” The subset selection module 114 may then compare the outage SINR or total outage SINR with the lookup table entries to determine the shortlist of modes with their transmission rates.
Time-Selective Fading
The statistics computation module 113 computes a probability expressed as P(SINR<μs−γ)=x %+/−ε% for each instantaneously measured post-processing SINR, a derived mean SINR μs (see
There may be different fading margins fs for different multiplexing rates s. Each multiplexing rate s can exhibit an independent diversity order ds, which may represent how much the post processing SINR will fade in time due to channel fades. For a 4×4 MIMO system 130 with four spatial multiplexing rates s=1, 2, 3, 4, the statistics computation module 113 may determine four corresponding fading margins fs, one fading margin fs for each multiplexing rate s.
The “Outage SINR” may be expressed as:
Gs=μs+fs
Gs represents a desired goal of estimated outage SINR and may be used by the subset selection module 114 to find one or more entries in the lookup table 108. Gs is equal to the receive post-processing mean SINR μs plus the fading margin fs. The fading margin fs represents how much the mean SINR μs will probably fade or fluctuate over time, and Gs is intended to account for this fading. If the fading margin fs is large, then Gs will be large.
Another method of obtaining the fading margin fs uses a known expression
relating outage probability and diversity order ds at high SINRs. The value “x” is a reliability factor (the second column in
where Pb is the target BER of the receiver 102. This equation assumes that for (100-x) % of the time, Gs (x % outage SINR) will be greater than a threshold post-processing mean SINR
and have zero BER. While x % of the time, the received mean post-processing SINR μs 110 will be smaller than the threshold post-processing mean SINR
and have 50% BER. For Pb=5×10−3, the above expression yields x=1%, providing 99% reliability.
The diversity order ds may be computed by a number of methods. One method for deriving diversity order ds assumes a Rayleigh fading channel. “Rayleigh fading” refers to a transmitted signal that spreads out, scatters and takes multiple paths of different lengths to arrive at a receiver antenna at different times. The ensemble of signals reflected by the ground, bodies of water, atmosphere, etc., arrive at the receiver antenna and create standing waves. Multipath fading occurs. The method can approximate the receiver post-processing instantaneous SINR to be a chi-square random variable with 2ds degrees of freedom. It is known that for Rayleigh fading channels, an MR×MT system with spatial multiplexing rate s≧1 has a diversity order of ds=(MR−s+1)×(MT−s+1). Theoretically, the receive post-processing instantaneous SINR is then a chi-square random variable with ds=2×(MR−s+1)×(MT−s+1) degrees of freedom. However, in practice, channel properties such as correlation, etc, can lead to a smaller diversity order, i.e., ds<2×(MR−s+1)×(MT−s+1). Assuming that the instantaneous SINR can still be approximately modeled as a chi-square random variable with 2ds degrees of freedom. The statistics computation module 113 may compute
where of is a variance of receive post-processing instantaneous SINR in time.
Frequency-Selective Fading
The receive post-processing instantaneous SINR may experience frequency-selective fading caused by a multipath channel. In such a case, the outer forward error correction (FEC) codes in packets transmitted from the transmitter 100 may extract a “frequency diversity gain αr” depending on the coding rate r. Frequency diversity gain αr may be understood as follows. In a multipath or frequency-selective fading channel, some tones of the OFDM system can be in a fade, while others may not. The FEC can recover or correct for the bits transmitted on the tones in a fade and improve the system performance. This improvement is called frequency diversity gain αr. This gain is measured by a decrease in Outage SINR required to obtain a target system BER. Typically, the lower the target BER, the higher the frequency diversity gain αr. The frequency diversity gains αr provided by different FECs on a multipath channel at a certain BER, are well-understood. With more frequency-selectivity, there will be more frequency diversity gain αr. For a flat-fading channel, the frequency diversity gain αr is 0.
The frequency diversity gain αr can be computed by the statistics computation module 113 via numerical simulations and stored in a lookup table separate from the lookup table 108 in
Using the Lookup Table
As stated above, the outage SINR may be expressed as Gs=μs+fs, where μs is the derived post-processing mean SINR and fs is the derived fading margin. The statistics computation module 113 may combine (a) the outage SINR Gs (for each spatial multiplexing rate s, e.g., s=1, 2, etc.) over time, with (b) the frequency diversity gain αr (for each coding rate r) to obtain a “total Outage SINR” expressed as Gs,r=Gs+αr. The table look-up module 114 may use the total Outage SINR Gs,r to find one or more entries in the lookup table 108 with comparable post-processing mean threshold SINRs
to obtain one or more acceptable or optimum transmission modes. This may be expressed as finding an acceptable or optimum coding rate r and modulation order m for a given spatial multiplexing rate s:
where “max” means maximum value, “sgn” means signum, and R=r×log2(m)×s is the physical layer (raw) data rate (Rs,r,m) in Bps/Hz. If
then s, r, m represent an acceptable mode for a shortlist. If
then s, r, m represent an unacceptable mode for a shortlist.
If multiple transmission modes yield the same data rate, then the subset selection module 114 may choose the mode leading to the highest margin
Values Depend on Spatial Multiplexing Rate
In the channel quality statistics computation module 113 in
For example, if the transmitter 100 uses spatial multiplexing rate s=1, then the statistics computation module 113 may determine a first post-processing mean SINR μs, a first margin SINR (including a first fading margin fs and a first frequency diversity gain αr), and a first total outage SINR Gs,r. If the transmitter 100 uses another spatial multiplexing rate s=2, then the statistics computation module 113 may determine a second post-processing mean SINR μs a second margin SINR (including a second fading margin fs and a second frequency diversity gain αr), and a second total outage SINR Gs,r. The subset selection module 114 then uses the first or second (s=1 or 2) total outage SINR Gs,r to access the lookup table 108, which may also have threshold mean SINRs and transmit modes categorized by s=1, s=2, etc., as shown in
The subset selection module 114 may use the computed outage SINR or total outage SINR to select a few transmission modes from the look-up table 108, in decreasing order of data rate, to be in a shortlist and sent back to the transmitter 100.
The transmit portion 101B of the receiver 102 may send the transmitter 100 a signal indicating the transmit modes in the shortlist, which may adapt the data transmission rate, coding rate r and modulation order m of new data packets accordingly (
The signal may identify the transmit modes in the shortlist explicitly, or may include indices to a table or addresses in a memory in which the transmit modes are stored. For example, The transmit portion 101B of the receiver 102 may send transmit mode indices (s*, r*, m*) to the transmitter 100. The indices indicate entries in a lookup table 108, which is also stored in the transmit or receive portions 101A, 103A of the transmitter 100 or elsewhere in the transmitter 100. The transmit portion 101A of the transmitter 100 puts the indices (s*, r*, m*) in a preamble or header of a packet to send to the receiver 102, which notifies the receiver 102 that the transmitter 100 will use new s*, r*, and m*. The receiver 102 switches to the new s*, r*, and m*.
The methods above may be a high data rate extension of IEEE 802.11a. These methods may be an efficient mechanism to select a large number of data rates. For example, if there are 4 transmit antennas, each with 50 Mbits/s, the transmitter may select from a large number of different data rates from 6 Mbits/s to 200 Mbits/s.
In alternative embodiments, the receiver 102 may transmit prohibited transmit modes, i.e., transmit modes other than those determined to be optimal. The prohibited modes may include all modes other than those determined to be optimal based on the channel quality statistics, or may include transmit modes determined to be the worst transmit modes based on the channel quality statistics. The prohibited transmit modes may be transmitted as, e.g., transmit modes, indices to a table, or memory addresses. After receiving the prohibited transmit modes, the transmitter 100 may transmit signals using transmit modes other than the prohibited modes, e.g., by cycling through available modes in the lookup table 108.
In alternative embodiments, the techniques described above may be implemented on other types of communication systems, such as, for example, SISO, SIMO (single-in multiple-out), and MIMO (multiple-in multiple-out) systems.
A number of embodiments have been described. Nevertheless, it will be understood that various modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the application. For example, a 3×3 MIMO system may be used. Accordingly, other embodiments are within the scope of the following claims.
Narasimhan, Ravi, Sampath, Hemanth
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